In Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:24 -0400 Norbert cum veritate scripsit : > Why are such things allowed into the archive? Will these things ever > even > make it into testing given that they are uninstallable?
diskless-image-secure | 0.3.6 | stable | all diskless-image-secure | 0.3.15 | testing | all diskless-image-secure | 0.3.15 | unstable | all > IMHO. this is a completelly wrong way of going about this. These > packages > contain data used by other packages. This is not uncommon, many > packages > have a -common or -data package to go with them. This is a special case > because the data is in the format of a .deb. I suggest then that > diskless-image-simple and friends should be packages that contain the > .deb > files. Ie. there is no reason one cannot have a harmless > diskless-image-simple that contains another .deb as data. This second > .deb > can then be used by the diskless package to setup its chroot. Good. Send me a patch. I will apply it. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4